Travel Blogs from Twentynine Palms, United States

... pull the might horn for you. We pass through Essex and Amboy before leaving 66 to head south pasta a huge salt lake to TwentyninePalms.
Up early the next morning, we make our way the short distance to the Joshua Tree National Park. The landscape here ...

vidal to the desert.... stayed 28 miles east of 29 palms.
This was a very difficult day of riding
I got an early start because I was going to be facing the winds going thru the desert.
72 miles
33 max
10.3 ave
7 hours ride time
temp hit 102 ...

Day 4: Victorville California to 29 Palms California - 97.3 miles So Chrssie, what have you seen since you've been in America? I have seen tarmac. Lots and lots of tarmiac - lumpy, bumpy, tarmac with cracks so big my front wheel could fall ...

Pulled over for some drinks and smokes, and a chance for me to acquire some more crappy American snack food I'd been wanting to try. It failed me again and was pretty nasty, Cadbury Mini Rolls outclass HoHo's and Ding Dongs every time. ...

... temperature was still 109 degrees! Back on the road, with Needles in the wavy, heat distorted rear-view mirror, we continue towards TwentyninePalms. There is no interstate to TwentyninePalms, so after a while, as the sun is setting, we leave the ...

... Tree. Not much point dribbling on about it other than that we are glad we drove through it! www.nps.gov/jotr/ Twenty Nine Palms main claim to fame is the fact that it is next to Americas largest Marine base, 19000 of them. Other than that it is ...

President Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed Joshua tree a National Monument in 1936. In 1994, as part of the California Desert Protection Act, Congress renamed the area Joshua Tree National Park. Twisted Joshua trees, verdant palm oases, and rock piles gives ...

... ; Noah Noah was right; today was a lot of driving. Leaving Kanab, Utah around 6:30 this morning we actually went thru 4 states (Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and California) to get here. I checked the mileage on the GPS this evening and we are at 980 ...

... after a whole day wandering around the Joshua Tree National Park in the desert heat. We are camping for the first night in 29 Palms. Woot-woot! We started out the evening great, already cooked and ate out of our van. Ok... it was just instant noodles, ...

Good morning from 29 Palms Golf Resort. Our first night spent camping was a success. I am surprised that I slept pretty well and I even slept through the entire night.... in a car!!! We are actually in an RV Park, which is quite a strange introduction to ...

29 Palms Inn - a recommendation if you are ever in this part of the world. In the middle of the high Mohave, right beside Joshua Tree State Park, individual cabins/adobes and a superb bar/restaurant... Oh and very friendly owners, a really individual kind ...

... we stopped at this amazing Bed and Breakfast. First they thought that there is unfortunately no space anymore but in the end we got a suite and an extra bedroom (for silvi and me). Amazing!!!!!!! The best place we've been. A really nice couple which ...

... worth it. The Mastodon Peak was one of the most beautiful views in the park, with a view of the Salton Sea and various sierras and valleys across the landscape in southern Joshua Tree. Now we are preparing a dinner back at our place in TwentyninePalms! ...

Day 6: Today, we stopped over in Palm Springs, a very nice and quite large city surrounded by windmills. After a tasty lunch we drove through the Joshua Tree Park with its impressive landscape and different types of cactus. The hotel is a real gem in the ...

... , and then I headed into the park. There’s a northern loop road with a highway on the north side connecting the towns of TwentyninePalms at the east (where I was staying), and Joshua Tree at the west. I had made it to TwentyninePalms in 3 hours, ...

... and started trying to chase trains which seemed to be travelling at over 100 kmph with double containers. We found our way to Twenty Nine Palms town which at first looked like a few shacks in the desert. But we were surprised when we got to 29 Palms Inn ...

... desert we cross the Colorado again still flowing although it does not make the sea. we arrived at BW in Twenty Nine Palms late afternoon a bit further out of town than we realised so had to get a taxi back into town for a meal at 29 Palm ...